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Persoonlijke gegevens WILLIAM (MA 1634) FREEBORN 

• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1594 in Harwich, Tendring District, Essex, England.
• Hij is overleden op 28 april 1670 in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, United States, hij was toen 76 jaar oud.
• Hij is begraven in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island, United States of America.
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 21 januari 2023.

Gezin van WILLIAM (MA 1634) FREEBORN

Hij is getrouwd met MARY (MA 1634) WILSON.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1625 te Malden, Essex, England, hij was toen 31 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. MARY WILSON FREEBORN  1627-1664 
2. SARAH WILSON FREEBORN  1632-1670
3. Gideon Wilson (RI) Freeborn  1639-1719 

Notities over WILLIAM (MA 1634) FREEBORN

ANCESTOR OF JANE JORDAN AND MARGUERITE IVERSON THROUGH FATHER BRUCE ARNDT

William Freeborn
Birth: 1594 Maldon District, Essex, England
Death: 28 Apr 1670 (aged 75œ76) Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
Burial: Portsmouth Friends Churchyard, Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
Memorial #: 68001735
Bio: Married Mary Wilson in 1625 at the Saint Mary's Church in Maldon, Essex, England.

At the age 40 William Freeborn left England for America with his wife, Mary Wilson Freeborn age 33, and daughter, Sarah age 2 and daughter Mary age 7. They sailed on the Francis leaving Ipwich, Suffolk, England and arrived in Boston in April 1634. {From the book, The Planters of the Commonwealth, by Charles Edward Banks, 1967 p.122}

The family settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts in the Batisford Manor. Daughter Mary died March 6, 1664. William, his wife Mary and daughter Sarah perished within 2 weeks of each other in the Spring of 1670. Possibly they suscumbed to an epidemic. Sarah died April 23, 1670.. William Freeborn died April 28, 1670.. Mary Wilson Freeborn died May 3, 1670.
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I would like to thank Find A Grave contributor Pam Watson #46996044 for sending me the following information.
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The Pursuit of a Pestilence
BY ERNEST CAULFIELD
Page-28 AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY

Cotton Mather's statement that in 1655 "an epidemical sort of cough had arrested most of the families in the country" suggests that all of these New England epidemics
were caused by the same disease. If so, it follows that influenza was sometimes very slow in spreading from one
colony to another, which is what one would expect in those
days of slow communications.

Letters written during the winter of 1660-1661 by many
persons living in different parts of New England confirm
John Hull's observations on an "epidemical cold" prevailing
not only in every town but "almost upon every person."
Hull did not seem greatly impressed with the seriousness of
the disease, no doubt because his family had it "very gently," but John Davenport, possibly influenced by his
son's alarming attack of pneumonia, wrote that in New
Haven some were "very ill and in great danger." The conflicting clinical evidence makes this epidemic difficult to classify although an incomplete list of deaths in Boston
tends to confirm John Hull's opinion of the next epidemic, that of 1670, the only information to be found is in a letter written by Richard Smith to John Winthrop, dated New London, May 2, 1670:

Here is many people dead at Rhode Island the later hand of winter and this spring 30 or 40: Mr. John Gard the Chief, others, those you know not and very sickly: still it takes them with a pain in head, stomach, & side on which follows a fever, & dies in 3 or 4 days.

This will have to be considered as a probable influenza epidemic since there are not many fulminating fevers with
pain in the side as a salient feature which can cause 30 or 40 deaths in a population of 5,000. It may be an early example of a number of colonial influenza epidemics that now seem very peculiar in that they were confined to sharply circumscribed areas.

An unusual number of different "sad disease" prevailed throughout New England during all of 1676.

Family Members
Spouse
Mary Wilson Freeborn 1601-1670
Children
Mary Freeborn Weaver 1627-1664
Sarah Freeborn Browning 1632-1670
Gideon Freeborn 1638-1719
Maintained by: Bo & Donna Webster (46525461)
Originally Created by: Superkentman (46877580)
Added: 6 Apr 2011
URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68001735/william-freeborn
Citation: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68001735/william-freeborn: accessed 21 January 2023), memorial page for William Freeborn (1594œ28 Apr 1670), Find a Grave Memorial ID 68001735, citing Portsmouth Friends Churchyard, Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA; Maintained by Bo & Donna Webster (contributor 46525461).

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